Tina Makereti
@tinamakereti.bsky.social
Looking for joy
Writer: www.tinamakereti.com
Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
Writer: www.tinamakereti.com
Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
Pinned
The Mires at Shakespeare & Co in Paris and Hatchards display at the Cheltenham Lit Festival. I can't be in those places so I am very grateful for friends who are! But golly I wish I could be in those places...
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move the FUCK over, Tiffany
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
move the FUCK over, Tiffany
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
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Started watching MURDERBOT and now I don't wanna go to work, I just want to watch MURDERBOT, which is pretty much the plot of MURDERBOT.
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Started watching MURDERBOT and now I don't wanna go to work, I just want to watch MURDERBOT, which is pretty much the plot of MURDERBOT.
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The article states eventually we'll run out of young migrants, while it's true that birth rates are declining just about everywhere, climate change is going to create even more displaced people, so if we welcome people seeking asylum, a genuine population crisis is probably a century away or longer
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The article states eventually we'll run out of young migrants, while it's true that birth rates are declining just about everywhere, climate change is going to create even more displaced people, so if we welcome people seeking asylum, a genuine population crisis is probably a century away or longer
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No country should have a 'population problem' when there are 123.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world, 40% of whom are children
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/how...
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/how...
How to solve New Zealand’s population problem – Michael Johnston - NZ Herald
OPINION: New Zealand's fertility rate has fallen to 1.6, well below replacement level.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
No country should have a 'population problem' when there are 123.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world, 40% of whom are children
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/how...
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/how...
I just did a very quick & unofficial count: since 2020, there have been 13 books by new Māori writers published (approx 6 years). In the whole of the 2010s, there were 7 new Māori writers published. Significantly, 7 of the 13 since 2020 wrote novels. Significant change!
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I just did a very quick & unofficial count: since 2020, there have been 13 books by new Māori writers published (approx 6 years). In the whole of the 2010s, there were 7 new Māori writers published. Significantly, 7 of the 13 since 2020 wrote novels. Significant change!
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We have MA scholarships available for theses on 18th-century/Romantic poetry and/or settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty in poetry and other literary forms ... details here!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
MA scholarship in English | Scholarships | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
www.wgtn.ac.nz
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
We have MA scholarships available for theses on 18th-century/Romantic poetry and/or settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty in poetry and other literary forms ... details here!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
Oh I didn’t see this earlier. Look at us nerds. Congratulations team and to the whole cohort 🌺🍾🥳
And it’s a wrap - 30 MA folios handed in tonight and off to their examiners in the morning. Here’s Team Makereti in their official t-shirt looking pleased to have crossed the finish line. Time for a cup of tea and a lie down. Congratulations everyone!🥂💐💐💐
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Oh I didn’t see this earlier. Look at us nerds. Congratulations team and to the whole cohort 🌺🍾🥳
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Oh it's happening
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
Concern on share markets as The Big Short's Michael Burry bets against top AI stocks
Michael Burry, who rose to fame in theThe Big Short after predicting the housing market would collapse, has placed a new bet.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Oh it's happening
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
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Go behind the scenes with acclaimed Arts Collective FAFSWAG, 🤩 We give you an exclusive look at our collaborative practice and the development of our powerful new work, FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE, for the Manchester International Festival 2025 (MIF25).
Full video on YouTube
youtu.be/QtwaUs16nok?...
Full video on YouTube
youtu.be/QtwaUs16nok?...
November 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Go behind the scenes with acclaimed Arts Collective FAFSWAG, 🤩 We give you an exclusive look at our collaborative practice and the development of our powerful new work, FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE, for the Manchester International Festival 2025 (MIF25).
Full video on YouTube
youtu.be/QtwaUs16nok?...
Full video on YouTube
youtu.be/QtwaUs16nok?...
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Two poems from the final collection of poetry by Serie Barford, in hospice care with cancer
The Sunday Poems, by Serie Barford
newsroom.co.nz
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Two poems from the final collection of poetry by Serie Barford, in hospice care with cancer
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Happy publication day to Tusiata Avia! Giving Birth to My Father is an extraordinary new collection from one of our country’s most important voices.
Cover art: Pati Solomona Tyrell
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Cover art: Pati Solomona Tyrell
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November 6, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Happy publication day to Tusiata Avia! Giving Birth to My Father is an extraordinary new collection from one of our country’s most important voices.
Cover art: Pati Solomona Tyrell
teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/giv...
Cover art: Pati Solomona Tyrell
teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/giv...
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Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race
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😂😂😂😂😂😂
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Today, 144 years ago, 1600 Crown troops invaded a pacifist settlement that was the centre of resistance against British colonialism. The leaders were arrested, the settlement sacked, the people violated.
For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Today, 144 years ago, 1600 Crown troops invaded a pacifist settlement that was the centre of resistance against British colonialism. The leaders were arrested, the settlement sacked, the people violated.
For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
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The 'Post' working hard to make Mamdani look like the coolest motherfucker alive.
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
The 'Post' working hard to make Mamdani look like the coolest motherfucker alive.
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Oh that’s funny: Kafka’s The Metamorphosis/Transformation was reviewed at the time of publication as “really lacking imagination & being boring” in one journal
November 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Oh that’s funny: Kafka’s The Metamorphosis/Transformation was reviewed at the time of publication as “really lacking imagination & being boring” in one journal
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We're thrilled to announce that in February 2026, Breton Dukes will make his debut as a novelist with Party Boy, a tender, shocking and comic portrait of a man on the edge.
Cover: Dudley Benson
More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/par...
Cover: Dudley Benson
More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/par...
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We're thrilled to announce that in February 2026, Breton Dukes will make his debut as a novelist with Party Boy, a tender, shocking and comic portrait of a man on the edge.
Cover: Dudley Benson
More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/par...
Cover: Dudley Benson
More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/par...
Celebrating the Class of 2025 tonight. Really proud of this lot. It was a blast.
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Celebrating the Class of 2025 tonight. Really proud of this lot. It was a blast.
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‘Putting Lives at Risk’- mental health services facing closure after government funding dries up #nzpol
He was proud to helped launch it, but now minister won’t step in to save this mental health service
‘Putting lives at risk’ - mental health service facing closure after government funding dries up
www.stuff.co.nz
November 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
‘Putting Lives at Risk’- mental health services facing closure after government funding dries up #nzpol
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Blows my mind that people think that it doesn’t damage our nations soul to not honour Te Tiriti
The coalition is taking our soul and trading it for military equipment and a low wage economy. That’s Seymour’s dream and it is awful for us and our children
The coalition is taking our soul and trading it for military equipment and a low wage economy. That’s Seymour’s dream and it is awful for us and our children
Elizabeth Rata wanted it gone, and so it is done.
November 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Blows my mind that people think that it doesn’t damage our nations soul to not honour Te Tiriti
The coalition is taking our soul and trading it for military equipment and a low wage economy. That’s Seymour’s dream and it is awful for us and our children
The coalition is taking our soul and trading it for military equipment and a low wage economy. That’s Seymour’s dream and it is awful for us and our children
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writing tip: write a story that makes you feel like you just set the needle down on the vinyl exactly where you'd wanted to
October 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
writing tip: write a story that makes you feel like you just set the needle down on the vinyl exactly where you'd wanted to
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At a time when academics are under sustained right-wing attack, Dr Siouxsie Wiles stood up to the neoliberal regime of university management and won, but it came at a cost. If you can, please consider supporting Siouxsie, one of the most courageous scholars I know.
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
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Support Dr Siouxsie After She Supported Us! | PledgeMe
Support Dr Siouxsie to recover some of the money she spent fighting her legal case to protect employees experiencing online abuse
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October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
At a time when academics are under sustained right-wing attack, Dr Siouxsie Wiles stood up to the neoliberal regime of university management and won, but it came at a cost. If you can, please consider supporting Siouxsie, one of the most courageous scholars I know.
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...